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Fannie Hurst quotes: We dig our graves with our teeth.

We dig our graves with our teeth.

Fannie Hurst quotes: [Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Fannie Hurst quotes: It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Fannie Hurst quotes: The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

Fannie Hurst quotes: The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...

Fannie Hurst quotes: The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

Fannie Hurst quotes: I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Fannie Hurst quotes: Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Fannie Hurst quotes: There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

Fannie Hurst quotes: I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Family. A snug kind of word.

Family. A snug kind of word.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Sex is a discovery.

Sex is a discovery.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Fannie Hurst quotes: Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Fannie Hurst quotes: A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.